I believe it is the Mayflower Compact written in 1620 because the compact basically established the structure of the first governments enforced onto the colonies where the colonists agreed to choose their own leaders for their governments
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Empiricism promotes the idea that knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world.